Last time I mentioned my muse it was to complain she had done a runner Has Anyone Seen My Muse. Today it is the complete opposite she is bombarding me from all directions. The deadline for submission on the novel is drawing nearer and should be my main focus but she keeps ramming random thoughts in my head and demanding I stop and consider them.
A few weeks ago Gillian at Black Door Press posted this post I looked, was interested but put it to one side until after the novel was done. My muse however did not. She lurked playing with ideas in my mind until a few days ago she started slapping me round the face with it. I tried to ignore it but finally last night I gave in. I know have 3000 words of a short story down and I know the rest will pour forth before the weekend.
Idea’s for flash pieces and poems are being scribbled hastily with one hand into one of the various notebooks I keep at hand while the other hand attempts to keep up the tempo on the keyboard.
I realise as I write this that even my notebooks have a life of their own. I have used a picture of a few of my notebooks as the featured image but the rest have spread their wings and flown around the house. They hide in bags, by beds, by the bath. Each one with random scrawlings indelibly etched across their pages only the black and silver one above has it’s own sacred purpose (this is the one that houses ideas , sketches and images related to my novel.)
I realise I need to organise better a book for flash, a book for poetry another perhaps for novel ideas that pring from the end of the one I am working on. Maybe even one specifically for ideas for blog posts?
I also realised the other day that despite my thousand facebook companions very few visited my like page. I came to the conclusion they a) love me as a friend but cannot like me as an author until I prove myself worthy b) need a reason to clutter their newsfeeds a little more. Obviously a) can only be addressed in time and with success but b) I could do something about and have posted a couple of exclusive videos on there including one of my reading one of my poems. So if you have the time and want to hear my voice feel free to pop over and visit (I don’t like the sound of my voice but it seems others quite like it which is just aswell)
Anyway we have an amazing thunderstorm that has just exploded overhead so I intend to take a notebook and let the storm fire up my muse a little more
Paula Acton 
Enjoy the storm! I find them exhilarating. Better too many ideas than too few, Paula, but it sounds like you need to focus on the novel deadline first. Maybe the other shorter pieces can be your reward. Good luck!
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I am trying but I had to get this short shory down in at least a rough draft form to clear my head. i found it leaking out of my fingers intruding into my novel writing hopefully now I nearly have the rough idea out it will be content to sit patiently
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You are a fortunate woman, Paula. Make hay while the sun shines, and make stories while the inspiration flows!
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My muse is always with me. Whether or not he wants to tell me anything is another story. Mostly he likes to point and laugh at me…just kidding. He loves me
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Too many stories and not enough time in the universe to write them all. Sounds like me.
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Go with what that “storm” brings, sister. It may be just what you needed for today ♥
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I know how hard it can be to get sidetracked by your muse, but I’ll not apologize for facilitating this particular distraction 😉
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
xo
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It is proving quite hard to write not having personal experience I just hope that done that I do justice to the cause
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I’m confident you’ll be fine. Thank you, truly.
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Mel has argreed to read it through for me but if it is okay with you I might email it to you once it is done and get your opinion on the content before I submit it if thats okay with you
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My muse does that a lot; allowing other ideas to crop up when I should be working on a single thing. I remember I was writing 3 WIPs at the same time at one point a few months ago. It’s ridiculous. I appreciate the deluge though because the times it’s dry, it’s real dry.
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With my prompt a day I’ll have 365 stories/scenes/snippets by the end of the year and won’t have a clue what to do with them! Lol
Regarding your notebooks, I did a post a while back where I decided I just had to get organised. My new method is working well in one sense but annoying me in another. I should really do an update lol
It was really good to hear other writers ideas and how they work too.
Good luck xd
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